spindle

Definitions

• (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
• A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
• A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
• Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
• An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
• The fusee of a watch.
• A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
• A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
• (geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
• Any marine univalve shell of the genus ; a .
• Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
• (biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
• (coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish trollsläslända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.